Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-23
IN SEARCH OF FORTUNES

Nearly Two Thousand Members of TIN
Sands Family Yearning for 875, 900, 600.
Every one who has Sands in his OF
her name is now dreaming OF great
wealth soon to come from an immense
estate in England. Like almost all ex-
tremely large families the Sands have
poor relations. relations comfortably
we'll of, and rich relations who are
prominent, and to a greater or less de-
gree influential The poor members
of The family dream of wealth as a
means of obtaining pleasant homes and
| full stomachs; those who are already
| in comfortable circumstances see
visions of increased business or profess
sional advancement, while these now
wealthy aanxiously await the British
gold that is expected, so that with the
addition to their present possessions
they may shine and sparkle with even
more brilliancy than at present. A
tradition has long existed In the
family that each and every MEM
Der of it, from the puny infants to the
Oldest white-haired patriarch, would
be wealthy. The story which the
Sands children heard at their mother's
knees and told again and again to their
own children and grand children, was
something like this:
In some way or other, unknown
now. Queen Elizabeth became favor
ably impressed with struggling young
English parson named Edwin Sandys.
It may be that he made his cloak a
sidewalk for her dainty feet, or that
his eloquence in the pulpit attracted
the notice of the tickle Queen. But,
as the story goes, she conferred honor
after honor upon him, and finally made
him an Archbishop. His estates were
large. and by careful and judicial man
agement, they were increased so that
at his death he was one Of the wealth
lest of the divines within the Queens
domains. The property descended by
Inheritance to Captain James Sandys,
who did not enjoy it long, as his 10y
atty to the Crown was impeached, and
he was obliged to fee to this country
in 1888. and the estates were confis-
Gated. Until lately they have remained
in the possession of the Grown.
About five years ago the matter was
brought before the English Parlia-
ment, and the British lawmakers were
led to see that an injury had been done
to the memory of Archbishop Sandys
which could only be rectifed by sur
rendering back to the heirs of the un-
fortunate Captain the property which
had been taken from him over two
hundred years before. The estates
have suffered nothing from remaining
intact, and have increased many times
over their former value, and are now
estima ted as being worth SIS, 900, 900
in round numbers, a small fortune for
each of the two thousand heirs. When
the descendants of Captain Sandys
learned what Parliament had done
measures we're taken to find out
who are entitled to share in this
wealth. Advertisements calling for
relatives resulted in many thousands
of answers, and so far l. 800 have sat-
isfactorily proved their kinship. The
name in the American effort to shorten
every thing that can possible be cut
off at the end. was changed to Sands,
SO almost every one of that name has
been spending weeks IN pouring over
old Bibles, and looking over church and
civic records, to find who his or her
ancestors were.
Charles Estabrood, city librarian of
Newburg. has taken an active part in
the work, and has been officially APP
pointed to receive and classify the
names as they come to him. He has
been kept busy in his task, for his av-.
erage daily mail has now reached |
twenty-five letters. He will publish a |
book giving the genealogy of the
Sandses. Meetings of the members of
the family who live in this city and
towns have been held at the
home of Joshua G. Sanders. Although
Mr.. Sanders has Sand as part of his
name he bears no relationship to the
English progenitor, but his wife was,
q Miss Sands, and she has been active,
in bringing the family together. The.
meetings so far have been perfectly
harmonious, and none of the elements
that disturb the blissful serenity of
many family gatherings have crept
into these assemblages. Exactly what
course the family shall take has not
yet been decided upon, and will not be
until all the relatives have been
heard from. However, a lawyer has
,een employed. and when the proper
lime comes he will go to England to
epresent the Sandses.-N. y Trib-
me,